“Stop being so difficult!' is the soundtrack to our childhoods, the refrain worming its way into our psyches until we silence ourselves before anyone else can, pushing through the unpleasantness until we snap.”
― A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
― A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
“Slowly, over many months, as my head came out of the sand, a form of joy set in —joy born of replacing the not knowing with knowing, the nub of worry with clarity, the lack of control with control...I thought, 'this is better than everything I lost. This is better than the life I thought I wanted.”
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
“If what happened in our divorce was vengeance, it was an existential vengeance, not a personal one. It had very little to do with me. And it existed on another plane from our love story.”
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
― Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
“I had internalized the names I was called - sensitive, moody, irritable, difficult - but they never felt accurate to my experience. What I felt was pain.”
― A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
― A Little Less Broken: How an Autism Diagnosis Finally Made Me Whole
“I felt, in my bones, an acceptance of men behaving badly, a value in not calling them out, in protecting a man’s belief in his own importance, and a premium placed on keeping such things private.”
― Strangers A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden & The Next Thing by Mira Hollis 2 Books Colletion Set
― Strangers A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden & The Next Thing by Mira Hollis 2 Books Colletion Set
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